Chapter 99 Zoonotic Infections of Medical Importance in Immunocompromised Humans Carol A. Glaser, Edward L. Powers and Craig E. Greene Immunodeficiencies in Humans Immunodeficiencies in humans have various physiologic and…
Chapter 63 Candidiasis and Rhodotorulosis Barrak M. Pressler Candidiasis Etiology The genus Candida (phylum Ascomycota, class Saccharomycetes) is composed of more than 150 species of budding yeasts, including the historic…
Chapter 30 Antibacterial Chemotherapy Craig E. Greene and Dawn M. Boothe The terms antibiotic, antibacterial, and antimicrobial are often used interchangeably, despite different meanings. Antibiotics are chemicals (e.g., penicillin) produced…
Chapter 69 Microsporidiosis Peter J. Didier, Karen F. Snowden, Xavier Alvarez and Elizabeth S Didier* Etiology Microsporidiosis in dogs and cats is primarily caused by the obligate intracellular parasite Encephalitozoon…
Chapter 96 Prevention and Management of Infection in Canine Populations Kate Hurley and Claudia J. Baldwin Canine populations can be described as transient or stable and can be defined further…
Chapter 64 Trichosporonosis Craig E. Greene Etiology Trichosporon spp., yeastlike fungi that exist in nature as soil saprophytes, are members of the family Cryptococcaceae. In culture, they form hyaline yeastlike…
Chapter 53 Surgical and Traumatic Wound Infections Craig E. Greene and J. Scott Weese Surgical site infections (SSIs), which hinder successful healing of operative wounds, are recognized as a relatively…
Chapter 44 Miscellaneous Bacterial Infections Carolyn R. O’Brien and Richard Malik Melioidosis Melioidosis is an infection caused by the saprophytic beta-proteobacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei (formerly Pseudomonas pseudomallei), an aerobic, gram-negative, motile…
